Comments Page Six – Emily Lyons

Date:

5/26/98

Time:

11:37:44 PM

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Emily, my heart goes out to you and your family for the awful and senseless thing that was done to you. I admire your courage in fighting for your recovery, as well as working in the women’c clinic in the first place. You are a nurse, one of the most selfless and necessary professions in our society. I really appreciate your husband taking time to update this Webpage so we can keep track of your progress. You are lucky–he seems like such a loving and caring man.

I really hope that those who are responsible for this heinous act are brought to justice before they harm others. Keep your spirits up, Emily. Know that thousands of people from all over are thinking of you and sending you prayers and thoughts of encouragement. Sincerely, Nancy Wiebe email: [email protected]

Date:

5/26/98

Time:

8:33:45 PM

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Hello Emily,

I have written before. Just wanted you to know I am thinking of you and praying for you. I work with a cousin of yours, M. Crocker from Brent. She is a very special lady and speaks very highly of you. I did not know she was kin to you until I said something about seeing you and your husband at a B’ham restaurant and how very sad it was that you were injured in such a way and how badly I felt for you. Please know that for all the people who are against you for working at the women’s clinic, there are many, many more who are for you and are praying for your recovery.

Date:

5/25/98

Time:

4:25:27 PM

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Dear Emily,

I was feeling so emotional about writing you and Jeff, I forgot to add my e-mail address so you can reply(if you so desire)! It is: [email protected]. I wrote the message dated 5/25 at 4:07:48; Jeff, if you need a friend to support you as well, feel free to correspond any time. The duplicate message dated 4:07:24 was sent inadvertently; sorry! Very warmly yours, Henry L. Howard

Date:

5/25/98

Time:

4:07:48 PM

Comments

Dear Emily,

I think of you often, and admire your courage and dedication to healing. You set an example for all of us; in early February, I sent a donation to the Birmingham clinic, asking that it be earmarked for you, to help with the expenses of your recovery. Now, I would like to add that I am one of many people committed to that recovery, and when you are able to write again, I promise I can be a good friend through correspondence. The only way the people who hurt you can truly win is if you let this tragedy embitter you or turn you from your path as a healer. You will recover, because so many people love and care for you. Now, I have joined that group. I have been a clinic defender for many years now, and will always be one until people can accept clinics as places of sanctuary and nurturing, and respect them as sacred beyond political disputes. I am writing you on Memorial Day, because you, too, are a veteran and survivor of a war–a needless war against women who only seek the most fundamental of rights: control over their own bodies. I am one man who is proud to protect that right; I have never been tested the way you have, but I hope that if I ever am, I will be able to call forth the same courage, faith, and grace you have shown. Jeff, my words for Emily are equally meant for you and your children. If you ever come to Los Angeles, please e-mail me in advance and I will extend every hospitality to you all from the deepest part of my heart. All the best, Henry L. Howard

Date:

5/25/98

Time:

4:07:24 PM

Comments

Dear Emily,

Date:

5/25/98

Time:

3:59:35 PM

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Hi Ya, E., Just a note, similar to previously…Happy to hear the good news of your continued recovery…Am sending this from the ‘dystopia’, of N.Y.C.,as my phone/modem is ‘not in service-bill’ My two cat’s, (Strech-the Knave, & Dumpling, Duke-of-Holstein), and my sig. Othr. (Phyillis), and her cat, (Einstein), continue to beseech the God/Gods/Goddesses we belive, for your continued goodluck/return of health, and to your husband/Family as well…

G. Frano, A-EMT-4-Paramedic,retired

Date:

5/25/98

Time:

2:56:47 PM

Comments

Dear Emily, I read of your progress with such happiness. You and your family are such an inspiration in a world that focuses too much on the horrible things that happen and not enough on the way to survive and move forward. And that is what we all must do. Continued good luck and keep finding things to laugh at, it keeps us healthy. Harold & Irene Bean, Carmichael, CA

Date:

5/22/98

Time:

10:56:28 AM

Comments

In the war of good against evil there are inevitable, regrettable costs. All will be sorted out in heaven, so do not fear – let the bible be your inspiration!

Anna [email protected] [email protected]

Date:

5/22/98

Time:

9:58:53 AM

Comments

Hello Emily, I have been following your progress and watching every show you’ve been on, for some reason I feel connected to you any way my prayers and thoughts are with you and Jeff and I know you will recover it will be slow but you’ll make it so many people are behind you especially the lord. Jeff, I think you are a truly remarkable man and I applaud you for the love and support you have given Emily, you are truly a great man you both are bless to have experienced such a love. My email address is [email protected] so whenever you’re able to answer messages or just want to talk give me buzz ok. Take care until next time and Happy Memorial Day.

Date:

5/21/98

Time:

12:29:13 AM

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Dear Emily, My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. I came accross your web page while doing research for a Nursing Issues Formal paper. I,m an R.N. (for 28 years!) that has returned to school…Georgia Southern University. My issues topic? Yes, you guessed it — Abortion. Anyway, as a long-time member of NOW and a staunch supporter of women’s rights, I thank you for your contributiion to the many women whose lives you have lovingly touched. Our world is a better place because of women like you. I know that you are a fighter and that you will come out a winner in this most recent battle. Keep fighting. You will remain in my thoughts and prayers. Best wishes for continued recovery. Sincerely, Dawn Smith, R.N., Claxton, Georgia, e-mail: [email protected]

Date:

5/20/98

Time:

9:08:18 AM

Comments

I would like to express my hopes for as full a recovery as possible to Emily. But for the life of me, I do not see the difference between what was done to her and what is done to the innocent in the clinic. I in no way endorse Eric’s violence and my sympathies are with Emily. But they are also with the children which the clinics mutilate. I pray for Emily’s recovery, both physical and moral.

Date:

5/19/98

Time:

8:34:33 AM

Comments

Emily:

i daily read your progress report. YOu are doing great. Time will pass slowly but you will continue to gain strenght and physical gains may not seem to fast at this point but do not let it get you down.

Jeff we would love to have you two come to the farm outside Anniston any time. If you need some quiet and peace. One only hears birds, animals and the sound of harmony here. Please call and come. Jane Thomas jthoma7159@aol,com Ii left our nuimbe rearlier please call. Or e-mail You two are in my thoughts daily

Date:

5/19/98

Time:

8:33:49 AM

Comments

Emily:

Date:

5/19/98

Time:

8:32:14 AM

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Emily:

Jeff we would love to hae you two come to the farm outside Anniston any time. If you need some quiet and peace. One only hears birds, animals and the sound of harmony here. Please call and come. Jane Thomas jthoma7159@aol,com i left our nuimber earler please call. Or e-mail You two are in my thoughts daily

Date:

5/18/98

Time:

11:01:23 PM

Comments

Jeff and Emily,

I feel like a slug because I haven’t kept in better touch. I do keep track of you on the Internet and am always glad to get the updates. This past week has been a difficult one for our family with the death of one of my daughter’s (you remember Beth) best high school friends. Joe, like Emily, was much to young to have his life disturbed. And like Emily, there were so many people who loved him. Makes me even more grateful that Emily has survived and is on the road of recovery, no matter how difficult. Keep on keeping on!!!

Jinne at [email protected]

ps MindSpring is working out much better. Thanks for the info.

Date:

5/18/98

Time:

3:44:27 PM

Comments

God Bless you Emily and your family. I saw you on TV. You are a true American Hero. You don’t let the bad gus get you! You have a Godly spirt,

Date:

5/16/98

Time:

11:36:27 AM

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Emily, as I continue to check in at this site and read of all that you are going through, I can’t tell you how deeply I feel for you. You are brave in that you keep on going through all of this. Don’t give up! There are those of us still out here praying and rooting for you and your recovery. We also want Rudolph found and brought to justice. But even that “justice” can’t compare to the pain you have lived with and will continue to live with. But know that you are not forgotten. Elizabeth Patrick, Seattle, WA

Date:

5/15/98

Time:

6:25:02 PM

Comments

dear emily

our thoughts and prayers continue to be with you during this long recovery period. we are saddened with the news of your continued medical problems and hope that things start getting better as your recovery from this horrendous act progresses. friends in north carolina…pierre and janae(rn) [email protected]

Date:

5/15/98

Time:

10:48:13 AM

Comments

Dear Emily,

Please don’t think I have forgotten about you. I have had several surgeries, so I hated to hear about all of the ones you have had to have. I am concentrating my good thoughts for improvement on your inner ear.

I have been busy doing things in our local community. We were protesting the assignment of a priest to the Catholic hospital in a counseling position. He was convicted of possession of child pornography. Fortunately, the Bishop changed his mind.

I will keep my local chapter informed of your progress.

Our very best wishes and thoughts. Adell Hold Henderson KY

Date:

5/14/98

Time:

11:42:23 PM

Comments

Sorry to hear about your week. Our prayers continue to be with you and hope that all the surgeries are finished soon. I cannot imagine how hard it must be to keep your spirits up. You guys are truly an inspiration to those of us who only think we have problems.

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

3:47:28 PM

Comments

you wrote:

The card was a vision test. This had numbers instead of letters. She was able to read the numbers on the top three (3) rows. This was about 20/200 vision. I am not up on how vision is measured, but I think that means that a person with normal vision can see something from 200 feet away that Emily has to be 20 feet away to see. In

You’re right…Emiy can see at 200 ft what most of us can see at 20 ft. This also qualifies her as being legally blind. which entitles her to fedceral assistance….have you guys investigated this?

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

3:44:31 PM

Comments

you wrote:

You’re right…Emoiy can see at 200 ft what most of us can see at 20\. This alsi qualiies her as being legally blind. wjoch entiles her to fedceral assistance….have you guys investigated this?

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

2:56:23 PM

Comments

Dang!!! I was just reading the progress reports site & can’t help but be blessed by the fact that Emily & I have so much in common! We re both nurses, support abortion rights, and are hearing impaired….my auditory nerve has been damaged since childhood.

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

2:55:06 PM

Comments

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

2:51:16 PM

Comments

Jeff…first the good news…I contacted the Oklahoma organ donor branch by phone & donated my corneas. They will get in contact with me soon for the necessary paper work. They were very grateful. The bad news is that I can t read what Dr. Morris has to say…..the text on that backkground is totally unreadable.

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

2:27:08 PM

Comments

Jeff…it’s ok.rn here. The pictures are not right….it may be my image viewer, but I don’t think so. Too much red & also too dark…not easy to make them out.

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

2:20:57 PM

Comments

Emily….it’s ok.rn (aka Jackie)…I’m a member of an x-files mailing list & have instructed them to write you personally. We’re a great bunch of gals (weird as hell, but GREAT women.). Hope you hear from them soon.

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

2:04:00 PM

Comments

DUH….I forgot to give you my e-mail address…it’s [email protected] Note the dot between ok & rn

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

2:01:07 PM

Comments

Emily…you truly are a hero. Being in Oklahoma, I’m very sensitive (as is everyone else here) to bombings, and being a transplanted yankee feminist, am also sensitive to abortion rights. That doesn’t go well down here, but screw ’em. I’m also a nurse, and feel for you….no member of the medical community should be subjected to this. I linked to your page from Laurie’s…but I don’t see a mail link on her page….can you tell me how to get in contact with her? And You’re in my prayers….BIG TIME.

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

2:00:13 PM

Comments

Date:

5/13/98

Time:

1:13:30 PM

Comments

Thank you!! You are a hero!! We need people like you!!

Date:

5/12/98

Time:

7:02:16 PM

Comments

Emily–There is little anyone can say. On behalf of the prolife community, I offer my deepest regrets that someone who claims to be “one of us” could do something like this. Bombing isn’t the answer, violence never solves anything. Someone who thinks that isn’t pro-life, he/she is pro-violence. I’ve kept up with your story because my boyfriend lives in westeren North Carolina where the major effort to locate Rudolph is located. Through it all, I have been angry and I have been elated. This truly is a story of right triumphing over evil. And in a way, it has changed my life, too. I will be majoring in communications/political science and eventually going onto law school. Someday, I hope to be a prosecuting attorney or an FBI special agent. I have realized that I must have a part in good vs. evil, because good will always win, and I want to help bring about justice. I hope that Eric Rudolph is caught soon. And I hope and pray that you will one day recover as completely as possible. Sarabeth ([email protected])

Date:

5/12/98

Time:

1:07:17 PM

Comments

Dear Emily , Even here in Newfoundland, Canada, we are thinking of you. May your beautiful “Tree of Hope” grow strong as a reflection of your own strength and courage. Hate is a terrible emotion belonging to the weak and ignorant; Love will overcome all. I will write about you in my journal as one of my “People to Remember”. Take care, Em Love Valerie

Date:

5/11/98

Time:

3:45:36 PM

Comments

Emily,

I volunteer as a clinic defender every Tuesday. It was a noble job you did. The man who hurt you is not a person of God. He is a misguided man who has believed the religious rhetoric used to oppress women for years. You are in my thoughts. Your sacrifice will not be forgotten.

[email protected]

Date:

5/11/98

Time:

9:54:39 AM

Comments

Dear Emily,

I am grateful to have the opportunity to address you personally. I wish you Godspeed in your recovery from the horrible wounds you received at the hands of a would-be murderer… I am deeply sorry and deeply offended that *anyone* who claims to be “pro-life” would commit such a horrendous act as bombing an abortion clinic. I agree with your husband that those who wish to picket abortion clinics should do so with signs that read: “I will adopt” or “I will help you find someone who will adopt” or “I will help you financially support and raise your child.” Anything and everything other than what the pickets usually read… (I know; I’ve seen them firsthand in my own town…)

Emily, I have personally come to the conclusion — as a Christian person — that it is NOT my place to decide for others what they will or will not do about their pregnancies, even though I am personally not in favor of abortion on demand as the law *now stands*. (Yet, I do not wish for all abortions to be banned, even though I personally feel that even one abortion performed is one too many.) I don’t believe for one minute that any woman truly wishes to abort and that she would choose another way if she could find one in most, but probably not all, cases. I also believe that any woman choosing to abort should be respected and helped through what must certainly be an ordeal for her NO MATTER ONE’S PERSONAL OPINIONS ON THE MATTER OF ABORTION. Again, I am DEEPLY, DEEPLY sorry for your injuries… For your having to suffer as you are, supposedly “in the name of God”…

God bless you and give you strength and encouragement… and those folks surrounding you with their love and help as you go through this very difficult time in your life. I pray that you will remain unbitter… I saw on you TODAY… I was thankful that you are as you are… inside yourself, a truly beautiful person…

Much love and many prayers,

Cynthia J. Bordner [email protected] Vero Beach, Florida

Date:

5/9/98

Time:

11:39:52 PM

Comments

thank you,

Date:

5/8/98

Time:

5:23:53 PM

Comments

Don’t let the idiot anti’s get you down. Keep fighting for our right to choose!